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Robert Whiting: Truth and fiction hard to separate as scandal ensnaring Mizuhara, Ohtani grows.
Robert Whiting's Japan: Truth and fiction hard to separate as scandal ensnaring Mizuhara, Ohtani grows.
URL https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/truth-and-fiction-hard-to-separate
TOKYO — Gambling on sports has been going on for as long as there have been sports, in every country of the world.
In Japan, back in 1970, the ‘Black Mist’ game-fixing scandal almost destroyed Japanese professional baseball. It ended with several players being banned for life. The going rate yakuza were paying at the time to participate in a fix was ¥500,000 per position and ¥1 million for a pitcher. It was said in order for a fix to succeed it was necessary to have a catcher, a pitcher, one infielder and one outfielder in on the scheme. It was not easy to intentionally lose a game. It required finesse.
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TOKYO JUNKIE https://tokyojunkie.com/
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Robert (Bob) Whiting is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed author who has written extensively on Japan, Japanese-American relations, and sports. His book You Gotta Have Wa was a Pulitzer Prize candidate and has recently been included in the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) top fifty baseball books of the last fifty years"
His latest book is Tokyo Junkie, https://amzn.to/3MdUyr9 a memoir focused on his life in Japan that combines Japanese post-war history and Japanese-American relations with his own experiences. You can read the foreword here, and excerpts here:
https://www.fccj.or.jp/sites/default/files/2021-04/04-April-2021-Number1Shimbun-v14.pdf
This site - https://tokyojunkie.com/archive/ - is a work-in-progress archive of Bob’s work.
You can also subscribe to his Substack and podcast, Robert Whiting’s Japan, - https://substack.com/@robertwhiting - which provide regular analysis of Japanese sports, politics, and business.
More on Bob’s books here:
https://tokyojunkie.com/english-language-books/
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